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While I agree that other languages can handle things in a cleaner way at the expense of performance, I also think that treating a smartphone with insanely power
by dmritard96 12y ago
While I agree that other languages can handle things in a cleaner way at the expense of performance, I also think that treating a smartphone with insanely powerful processors as if they are embedded devices is also a bit disappointing. Most of the worlds python code is probably running on commodity hardware with considerably less horsepower than todays smartphones. Even in python's case for instance, if you need to drop into something closer to the metal (most of the time probably unnecessary), you can quite easily.
- stcredzero 12y agoI also think that treating a smartphone with insanely powerful processors as if they are embedded devices is also a bit disappointing Computation is power, which is always going to be at a premium on mobiles in a competitive market. But if you want to have beautiful edifices of mathematics in Swift, you can always use Swift to write your own math library, and still get better performance than cpython. Expecting Swift's built in types to trivially be your math library is wishing the design goals were different.